Los Angeles Times, January 10, 2011 by Carol J. Williams
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pardon-power-20110111,0,671424.story
“In the main, it gives people who are convicted of a crime yet one more opportunity to get a government office to review it and make a determination whether the sentence is unjustified or excessive,” said Jesse Choper, a constitutional law professor at UC Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law. “Very often there has been no legal error but nonetheless it may seem unjust.”